Granada International, Orange, Ink VOD Deal

LONDON, June 14: In a non-exclusive three-year volume deal, Granada
International has licensed a selection of titles to Orange for subscription
video-on-demand and video-on-demand in France.

The initial selection that Granada licensed to Orange
includes Space 1999, The
Persuaders, Brideshead Revisited, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Inspector Morse and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A package of feature films is also included under
the deal, including The Last Seduction, To Die For, The
African Queen, Bugsy Malone and a number of titles directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Orange’s VOD services are available via set-top box, ADSL
network and the Internet. Also available via set top box are Orange’s SVOD
services, which launched last November with the music-oriented series 24/24
Musique and the animated series 24/24
Jeunesse. From June 2007, this service will
be extended to include drama series.

“We are currently digitizing our catalogue, which contains
many series which are well known throughout the world, at a rate of 450 hours
per week,” said Nadine Nohr, the managing director of Granada International.
“Working with VOD and SVOD suppliers is a further opportunity for us to
maximize revenue from our extensive range of programming and offer a number of
non-exclusive volume deals for many companies in the market that are keen to
acquire content that will have a broad appeal to their new customers.”